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AI PROBLEMS Lifehacker: AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy. "A few years ago, AI note-taking and transcription tools were a niche productivity hack used by busy executives and the media. Now, […]
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The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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The U.S. Army is opening test ranges to weapons-makers to expedite development—even as officials push back on concerns about dwindling munitions stockpiles.
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The directive to industry from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg comes amid tensions over a critical U.S. munitions shortage.
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K-Lite Codec Pack Update is a free cumulative update for the latest version of the popular K-Lite Codec Packs. [License: | Requires:
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 1155 for Aug. 9.
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A single adapter could be all you need.
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A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port.
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Global Speed for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge allows you to set a default speed for video and audio easily. This extension/add-on sets a default speed for HTML media elements such as videos and audio. It works with almost all streaming sites, including popular ones like Youtube, Netflix, Facebook, Twitch, Spotify, and even podcast sites [License: | Requires:
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Refined GitHub is an Open Source extension/add-on that simplifies navigating and utilizing the GitHub repository. It intends to enable features that should be included in GitHub to make using it easier by adding many small, productivity-enhancing tweaks. [License: | Requires:
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There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other.
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AI PROBLEMS TechSpot: Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots. "WTF?! Amazon is restricting access to customer reviews for some shoppers after mistakenly identifying them […]
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NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide.
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Privacy Badger for Chrome is a free extension designed to automatically learn to block numerous invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger for Chrome learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web. Privacy Badger sends the Do Not Track signal (https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track) with your browsing. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger for Chrome will learn to block them. [License: | Requires:
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As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don't want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that's what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wroclaw into the municipal district heating network.
Citylink is designing the data center so that heat from servers can be recovered instead of being dissipated via cooling systems — and as the data center grows, any increase in computing power will mean more energy available for recovery.
The collaboration with local power company Kogeneracja will provide "valuable experience in designing and operating modern data centers, with a particular focus on infrastructure dedicated to AI nodes," said Michal Starybrat, development director at Citylink.
"The dynamic growth of the artificial intelligence and cloud technology markets generates unprecedented demand for computing power, this collaboration demonstrates how modern digital infrastructure can actively contribute to building the energy ecosystem of the future," he added.
This type of initiative is not new. There have been similar projects in the UK and
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Wispr, the startup behind dictation tool Wispr Flow, has created an AI note-taking assistant that records meetings and generates conversation summaries for users.
The Wispr Flow Notetaker tool "captures your meetings so you can stop splitting your attention between listening and writing things down," said Sahaj Garja, Wispr CTO and co-founder.
Notetaker starts recording with one click, and doesn't require a bot to attend a video or voice call. It can also be used to capture in-person conversations.
The software has three key functions. Before a call, Notetaker displays a meeting brief with information such as meeting purpose and background of participants.
Once the meeting starts, a live transcript displays the dialogue text and labels speakers. A "what did I miss?" button provides a summary of talking points from the previous few minutes.
Finally, post-meeting, Notetaker generates a more detailed summary organized by topic that includes information such as key dates, decisions, and next steps. Users can search across notes from previous meetings in the Notetaker app. "Over time your meeting history stops being a folder of documents you have to go find and becomes something you can ask questions of," said Garja.
Notetaker integrates with AI assistants such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT via model context protocol. Th
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 In iOS 26, Apple let you stretch the Lock Screen clock down your iPhone's display until it dwarfed everything else. In iOS 27, Apple has a new clock option that does the opposite, with the introduction of a compact mode that shrinks the time to roughly the size of the date and tucks it into the row at the top of the screen.
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AI PROBLEMS Mother Jones: Inside a Mass Shooter's Harrowing History With ChatGPT. "Throughout the prior 12 months, [Phoenix] Ikner messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times—including dozens of conversations revealing he was […]
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German authorities have launched a counterterrorism investigation following the discovery of the drone amid mounting security concerns.
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Unitree reached a nearly $9 billion IPO valuation as new FCC restrictions on certain foreign-made connected robots reshape the global robotics landscape.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket used in the January 2025 Blue Ghost mission has crashed into the lunar surface.
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AI note-taking app maker Granola is accused of violating privacy laws by developing software that can record conversations without all participants' consent, according to a lawsuit filed July 30 in a California federal court.
It follows a similar ongoing case in the same district, filed last year, that involves another note-taking and transcription software vendor, Otter.ai.
AI note-taking apps have proliferated in recent years, with dedicated tools emerging from vendors including Fellow, Fireflies, Otter, and others, some of which claim to have tens of millions of users. These AI assistants record and transcribe meeting conversations, generating automated summaries and follow-up items. Similar note-taking functionality is also built into virtual meeting platforms such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.
However, the use of these AI note-taking tools has raised privacy concerns over the ability of some to record and transcribe conversations without the consent of all participants.
The proposed class action complaint against Granola, filed by Florida resident Tarra Chamberlain in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges the company "purposefully" designed its app to record calls without requiring disclosure to all participants.
While some note-taking tools require
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Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.
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As newspapers move online, the buildings that once housed their printing presses need new occupants.
The Minnesota Star Tribune has just sold its old printing plant on the edge of Minneapolis to the aptly named property developer Legacy Investing, which plans to create a new data center there. has found the ideal way to bring them back to life.
This is the second such move by Legacy. It has already bought a building in downtown Minneapolis that it has transformed into a data center for artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
These old buildings, already connected to power, are an attractive option for developers — especially with some grid operators threatening power cuts for new-build data centers during power shortages.
Legacy is taking a small-is-beautiful approach rather than replicating the massive data centers being built for Big Tech firms. Those are the size of small towns and consume huge volumes of water and hundreds of megawatts of power, while the capacity of Legacy's downtown building is about 30 MW, and it expects the Star Tribune site to host around 20 MW
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A foldable iPhone could be coming soon, but CNET readers would make other changes instead.
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ANTI-AI ACTIVISM Reuters: Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states. "Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held ?142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first […]
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Still running Windows 10 and pretending everything's fine? No shame — we've all hit "Remind me later" more times than we care to admit. However, if you're still running Windows 10, your Microsoft support just ended.
With this deal, you can finally make the jump to Windows 11 Pro for just $14.97. That's a full-fledged, professional-grade operating system for the price of two fancy lattes.
First of all, Windows 11 Pro is smooth. Like, way smoother than its predecessors. The redesigned interface is clean, centered, and customizable, which is great for focus and flow. Plus, it comes with features that make multitasking feel like second nature: snap layouts, virtual desktops, and lightning-fast search tools.
You get enterprise-grade features like BitLocker encryption, Windows Hello biometric login, and TPM 2.0 compatibility — all designed to protect your work, files, and peace of mind.
And Windows Copilot is now baked
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Object 90377 Sedna - a distant transneptunian object best known for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year-old orbit - is currently en-route to perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun) in 2076. After that, Sedna will return to the 'space. deep and will not return for millennia, making this overview a unique (or, once in ~ 113 lifetimes) opportunity to study an object from the far reaches of our solar system. There are no Sedna missions in the works yet, but astronomers are starting to plan for the possibility and ideal launch date for such a mission is fast approaching, with two of the best launch windows coming in 2029 and 2034.
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